If you are ecommerce retailer and your customers have general pricelist with sales campaigns for every walk-in or on account customer, we would like to give you Business-To-Customer ecommerce highlights for Great Plains.
For ecommerce technology the most advanced component is probably Shopping Cart application and you are likely to have one chosen and implemented in your e-commerce website,
and now you are looking for integration to send transactions to your Corporate ERP application automatically in real time or in quasi real time (every half an hour, for example). There are numerous products available on the software development market, which should allow you to redeploy ecommerce on the base of “new” product and technology, but if you are reading these lines – likely that you are favoring the approach where you are not losing your past expenses and programming time and simply would like to connect existing B2C ecommerce website with Dynamics GP
1. Installation Wizard. As B2C ecommerce technology is often simple in comparison to when you are selling to the businesses – we assume that you are expect the same simplicity level from your software development vendors. Installation wizard walks you through ecommerce to Dynamics GP integration setup. For example, you will need to pick up your Shopping Cart platform (Magento, ASP .Net Store Front, etc.), also pick the default Dynamics GP site (or in other words warehouse) for ecommerce sales order item fulfillments (referred as allocation in Great Plains), SOP document type (as you may know or not – Sales Order Processing module in GP has the option to pick unlimited number of SOP types – with automatic allocation, with manual allocation and combinations)
2. eCommerce module technology. We deploy our unique technology Order Connector and ecommerce is in fact extension, opening up Dynamics GP Sales Order Processing and Inventory Control modules for e-commerce transactions
3. Automatic SOP Invoices batch posting directly from your ecommerce application. We have this option, and we see high demand in ecommerce retailing industry, where you want all the steps of ecommerce originated transactions to be completely automated (with some exceptions, where transaction meets escalation to the customer support technician criteria). eCommerce batch could be scheduled for posting directly in ecommerce application if you are deploying our Alba Spectrum Posting Server. Latest version of the server allows you also to do simple or even complex workflow with executing DLLs, Applications, Dexterity Sanscript code, VBA scripts and other even handling techniques
4. If you are just looking to do ecommerce integration once a day. This is good decision, as Dynamics GP has Integration Manager module, which allows you to map either text file integration or even advanced ODBC, where you can base your integration on MS SQL Server, MySQL or Oracle views with if - you need this – further VBA even handling logic. IM integration could be scheduled to fire in quasi real time – one of our customers in Computer Parts wholesale and IT support services had IM integration setup to pull data from PHP based ecommerce application
5. Where to find more info. Please call us 1-866-528-0577, 1-269-605-0330 (Michigan location) or email us help@albaspectrum.com We serve you USA, Canada nationwide and internationally. Local service is available in Southwest Michigan: St. Joseph, Benton Harbor, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Holland, Kalamazoo; Chicago, Illinois, Sand Diego and Los Angeles California, Houston, TX
